Gymnostoma deplancheanum (Miq.) L.A.S.Johnson

국표에 없다.

The family Casuarinaceae is a strange family. The plants that it contains look like conifers, and seem to have cones, but are in fact classified as flowering plants or Angiosperms. The genus Gymnostoma in New Caledonia contains 8 species all of which are endemic to the island. Gymnostoma deplancheanum is a small, conifer-like tree with gorgeous spring green, thick, needle-like shoots. It will make an extremely attractive and robust ornamental but apparently is practically unknown in cultivation.

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• Family: Casuarinaceae R. Br.

• Country of Origin: New Caledonia 

  

• Habitat: gravelly soils (oxisol) on the southern massif

• Description: The species is dioecious. The female catkins are formed with brown spiky balls with bumps. The seeds are very small and winged. Its roots have nitrogen-fixing nodules (actinorhizae) which, in symbiosis with bacteria of the genus Frankia, assimilate nitrogen from the air.5

Gymnostoma deplancheanum {Casuarinaceae} (uconn.edu)

 

 

 

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